Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1916-11-19 | Page 21 | Labor Leaders Call on Wilson

LABOR jOR LEADERS CALL ON WILSON d r t i p tp t Talks Tall s to Them onor on for or Elimination o of Class Feeling tL f I fl Nov Nor 18 Pre President r 4 Wilson told y a delegation from the ther American Federation of or Labor late to- to a Al 1 that all class feeling In America should bould boy bo eliminated by tho the establish establish- tp nent ment oat of Justice with a no heart In It It I i Iti ti a declared that no ono one who falls to I 6 work for this end Is qualified to call calli 1 himself a true American of The delegation comprised the mem- mem I. I of or the federations federation's annual cona convention con con- a which had been meeting In Baltimore E The Tho delegates camo came to Washington which had been meeting In jn Baltimore The delegates came to Washington to congratulate the President President dent on his ro re Samuel Gompers Gom- Gom ui pers president of or the federation acted as their spokesman declaring laboring people had come to recognize that Mr Wilson Filson stands for Justice freedom and righteousness We Wo have havo taken Joy In uphold upholding Ing I our four hands in your great work sai saiJI eald ald d JI r. r Gompers I r need not say that coming to m me meas r es as you do on such an errand I am amery c very ery deeply gratified and am very greatly j cheered said the tho President In reply It would Woul bo be Impossible for mo me off off- band to say Just what thoughts aro aroI I stirred In mo me b by what Mr lr Gompers has las said to me as your spokesman but perhaps the simplest thing thinS I can sa say says Is s after atter all all the meat of or the whole matEl mat mat- El ter ter What I have tried to do Is to get rid of nn any class division in this country country coun- coun try itry not only but of or an any class consciousness conscious- conscious toss ness and feeling Tho The worst thing that could happen to America would be that the he he should be divided Into groups and camps In which there thero score wore cre men men and women tromen who thought tho they were at odds with Ith one another that the tho spirit of erica was wal not expressed except In them em and that possibilities of antagonism antagonism antaS' antaS were ware tho the only things that we bad lad to look forward to IsN 4 Achievement Is a comparatively small matter but tho the spirit In which 4 things aro are dono done Is the essence of or the whole thin thing and what that I am striving U for and what I hope you ou are striving I for Ifor is to blot out all tho lines of or l lion Ion in America and create a unity of or and of or purpose founded rounded upon The consciousness that w wo o are aro all all 11 men and women of or the same samo sort and nd that I If we do not understand each other we are not true truo Amerl Americans ns If It wo we cannot enter Into each others other's thoughts if Ir wo we cannot comprehend I each others other's interests if Ie we wo cannot serve erve each others other's essential welfare then we one have not nOl yet ret qualified as representatives representatives rep rep- of or the American spirit IQ Ur Urge Salaries Baltimore Nov No IS The Tho Tho convention Of or the American Federation of or Labor LIbor r toda today adopted a resolution Instructing Its He president and executive council to 1 endeavor to have Congress enact a law Jaw granting to all government employees em em- f In the classified civil service in a horizontal increase In salaries of or at least OO a E year The Tho resolution declared that It Jt IR Ia linow now almost 1 Impossible for a classified i IJ civil service employee to support him him- p 41 self and family on tho the wages paid by K J the thc United States it